Posted on Monday, March 23rd, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Colonies of ‘Cybots’ May Defend Government Networks
FoxNEWS
If all goes as planned, in just a few years colonies of software robots — “cybots” — linked into a “hive” mind could be defending the largest computer systems in America against network intruders. Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory say the program behind the cybots – Ubiquitous Transient Autonomous Mission Entities (UNTAME) – will be very different from current cybersecurity systems.
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